Example sentences of "six [noun] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | but the particular council which is Elmbridge District Council , started off after last year 's victory by the Liberal Democrats , by moving to one full council meeting a week , lasting about six hours once a week . |
| 2 | Six months later a Treaty was signed in London which led to the setting up of a 26-county Free State . |
| 3 | Six blocks away a 52-year-old doorman who tried to protect himself with an ice pick was killed by a teenager with an automatic handgun . |
| 4 | Six years ago a road accident left him severely injured . |
| 5 | When six years later a son was finally born , his new family simply threw him out and the poverty is so great in the region that one month spent begging and homeless brought him to death 's door . |
| 6 | Six years later a papal envoy passing the city reported scarcely two hundred houses still standing , with human bones scattered across the countryside . |
| 7 | Six weeks later a great demonstration in the Royal Albert Hall demanded the establishment of a Merchant Seamen 's League to put the boycott into effect and " to assist them in maintaining their benevolent institutions for the aged and infirm " A short time ago , he declared in 1918 , he had received a document from four leading German trade unionists attempting to justify the U-boat campaign by arguing that " only a campaign of frightfulness against the British and neutral vessels trading to ports in the United Kingdom and the starving of the people of the British Isles would bring the war to a speedy close " . |
| 8 | Six seconds later a loud ‘ break-up ’ noise was recorded on the cockpit voice recorder and the aircraft nosed down violently , diving into the ground at an angle of 500 . |
| 9 | Of their six children only a son and a daughter survived . |